Smartphone Options for the Budget-MindedToday Verizon launched prepaid plans for smartphones. Customers can choose between unlimited talk/text with 500MB of data for $60/month or $70 for the same with 2GB of data. The data plans are 3G-only. [Verizon]

Xbox to ‘Unlock' its Netflix App This Weekend, Granting Access to All Subscribers For a Mere Three DaysIf you own an Xbox 360 and want to stream Netflix from it, normally you have to pay $60/year for Xbox Live Gold to use the app in addition to the $7.99/month Netflix already costs. However, this weekend Microsoft will be dropping the restriction in order to promote Netflix's new original series House of Cards—which means you can access Netflix without being an Xbox Live subscriber for this weekend only. [The Next Web]